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I have a text frame that needs to change shape, from narrow to wide column. I can change the shape, but have to manually remove line endings. I'm sure this is not intended in a professional product.
As a work-around, I copy the text into Notepad, clean up the words that are now not separated by a space and the line endings that are not where they are needed.
Presumably, this is a buy you will fix!

In a recent post in Questions, @Maxxxworld asked how he could warp an image to apparently wrap it around a bottle. I posted a solution to his problem there, which I expand upon here.
Consider the facing semicircle of the bottle as seen in this diagram:
The visible part of the label extends from -90 degrees (on the left, not shown) to 90 degrees on the right. This will correspond to the width of the original image. This will project onto the final width of the image (the line below). The final width is less than the original width by a factor of pi/2. A bit of trigonometry shows that the sine of the Angle indicated is given by (x-halfwidth)/halfwidth, where halfwidth is both the label and the final image.
Putting this together and re-arranging a bit gives us an Equation:
x=(asin(2*x/w-1)*w/180)*pi/2+w/2
A bottle is typically viewed from above, so that the label has a curve, typically with a dip in the middle.This can easily be simulated using equations, using:
y=y-Const*x*(w-x)/w/w
The Constant determines the depth and direction of the curve. I have used the expression w*(0.5-a) as a scaling factor, where a is a parameter chosen at runtime. This will change the curve from negative (curving down) at the default a=1 to positive at a=0. Inserting this into the equation gives:
y=y+(0.5-a)*x*(w-x)/w
Note that the w in the numerator and denominator cancel out. The value of (0.5-a) determines the curvature as described above.
As an example, here is the Great West Window of Chester Cathedral. I chose this because it has lots of verticals to see how the filter affects it. (It has verticals once I had put it through the Mesh Warp.)
And here is the image after the filter:
Before filtering I cropped it close to the sides of the window and then Rasterized it to remove the invisible sides. I then added space at the top and bottom to allow room for the curvature part to operate. I then followed this by Clip Canvas to remove surplus transparent ends.
The calculations for this filter are complicated by the algorithm that Affinity uses to effect these equations, which I explain in this Tutorial here. I have created a macro that effects the filter, and then uses Clip Canvas. By clicking on the cogwheel, you can alter the degree and direction of curvature.
WrapAround.afmacro
John

Windows 10, Publisher Build 145.
I've noticed something about tight text wrapping around a curved shape that seems wrong, but maybe someone can explain it to me.
Have a look at the first attached image.
The text is 7pt Arial on a 9pt baseline grid.
The filled blue circle is a layer that has tight text wrapping with a gap of 2pt all-round.
The outlined blue circle - on the right-hand diagram - is 4pts wider and taller than the filled blue circle (observing the 2pt gap of the text wrap).
As you can see, the text is further away from the circle at the top and bottom than it is at the right.
I can understand why, for example, "hendrerit" below the circles isn't anywhere near the outlined circle because the baseline forces it to be further away, but I don't understand why the other text is so far away from the circle.
The second attached image shows the same sort of issue but it looks a lot worse there.
Can anyone explain why this is supposed to happen, or is it a bug? It just doesn't seem quite right to me.
(I've also attached the afpub file in case anyone wants to have a play with it.)
tight wrapping round curves.afpub

Hi all,
my first post here. I am using photoshop since CS2 and I am pretty good in it. Never the less it became to expensive for me to use it just once in a while so I decided to buy Affinity Photo. Great programm so far. I have just one question: Since AP doesnt behave like it is said in the helpfile I was wondering, if I am doing something wrong. I just want to place a text on a path or curve. I create the path/curve and select the text tool. It is said, that the curser would change, when I come next to the curve with the tool selected. But that little devil mouse icon wont change. Hence I cant wrap my text along the curve. Am I missing something here? A simple checkbox somewhere to click? Any hint will be much appreciated. I found a lot of hints for Affinity Designer, but that differs to Photo. Hopefully someone can give me a tip. Many thanks in advance.
cheers
Marcus

Page wrap should be built in. it is something that should always be there. it is not something you should have to turn on every time you use a word processor. i tried to turn the feature on and nothing happened. the words just kept going off the page. this needs to be addressed.

I am fairly new to Affinity so struggling a bit here, all I want to do is add mirrored edges along all four sides of a photo for printing on to canvas preferably with a blur so that the image wraps around the frame seamlessly, I am sure there is a way but I struggling with this, all the ways I have tried have been successful to a point but I am sure there must be a simpler way. Can anybody help?
Mark

Recently I face a problem where I had to put a text on to a perspective product in a circular form. I was unable to do that and had to get it done from AI and shift to AD. I also found that there are no text wrap options into this.

hey guys
I recently was using Adobe illustrator and I was using the specific tool in it such as effect menu
but when I started using affinity I notice that there is no effect panel like illustrator, for instance, to make zig zag effect or wrap extra

Hi all
I have an arrow and want to bend/wrap the group after construction to a path.
Example attached. The arrow in it should follow/bend like the curve.
I am currently stuck and really appreciate any help and hints :)
Many thanks in advance,
Roland
Pfeil.afdesign

The Affinity Designer intro video shows text and graphics being dynamically wrapped on a box package. Are there any videos or tutorials to show how to accomplish this automatic text and graphics wrapping on a package?

I know that text wrapping is possible in Affinity Publish and Design, but is there any way to use this option in Affinity Photo? It would be incredibly helpful to me if I could shape text into a circle. Obviously, you can use the mesh warp tool, but it's not very clean/precise, and it would take forever to shape multiple words into a professional-looking circular pattern.